diff --git a/lang/java/pom.xml b/lang/java/pom.xml
index 89d0b83844f..fbc89be55f5 100644
--- a/lang/java/pom.xml
+++ b/lang/java/pom.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     <slf4j.version>1.7.32</slf4j.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.8.4</snappy.version>
     <velocity.version>2.3</velocity.version>
-    <maven.version>3.8.1</maven.version>
+    <maven.version>3.9.8</maven.version>
     <ant.version>1.10.11</ant.version>
     <commons-cli.version>1.4</commons-cli.version>
     <commons-compress.version>1.21</commons-compress.version>